This photograph spurred jokes about dollhouses and ventriloquists.
and first lady Jill Biden during a visit with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter went viral on social media. While some appreciated the photo as it showed the current and former occupants of the White House, others shared it because the perspective made the Bidens look giant compared to the Carters.
To start off, this is a genuine photograph of the Bidens and the Carters. It was originally shared by the Carter Center, and it's doubtful the Carter Center would purposefully manipulate a photograph to denigrate the person their organization specifically celebrates.As far as we can tell, there are three things at play here.The fact that two of the pictured people are sitting .When Carter was running for president in 1976, it was.
The posture of the four pictured people is also playing into this odd optical illusion. Both of the Carters are sitting, and Jimmy Carter, for example, is slightly slouched in his chair. The size difference probably wouldn't seem so apparent if he was sitting up straight. Lastly, there seems to be some accidentally forced perspective at play here. Forced perspective is an optical illusion that is based on the fact that objects look bigger when they are closer to the camera. This sometimes crops up as a sort of photographic trickery that has been used to create pictures shared on social media of allegedly"giant"
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